Alan Watts Quotes

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

Work hard, play hard.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living.

I like to work hard and play hard.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn't ever feel like work.